, 1887-12-20
T-ELEaRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Prince Frederick Leopold is seriously i'll
with gastric fever.
Queen Victoria is indisposed, having
caught cold on Friday last while in Lon
don.
The Bulgarian minister of war has
demanded credit in order to purchase
100, 600 rifles.
The Right Rev. Jas. Jos. Carberry,
Catholic bishop of the diocese of Hamil-
ton, Ont, is dead.
Joseph Kidd & Sons, general store
keepers at Dublin, Ont, have failed.
Liabilities, $l50,000.
Five men were instantly killed at Tilton,
Tenn, yesterday, by the explosion OF a
boiler at Winchester's sawmill.
The universities at Charkof and
Odessa, in Russia, have been closed owing
to disorders among the students.
Charles Arnold, cashier for the private
banking firm Of Kean 4 Co., of Chicago,
was arrested yesterday on a charge of EN-
bezzlement. The amount was not made
known.
A paper published in Vienna asserts
that another attempt has been made upon
the life Of the car, that the car was
wounded and that a revolutionary move
ment has broken out in ST. Petersburg.
Prominent wool growers of California
met in Sacramento yesterday and adopted
resolutions condemning any effort at a re-
duction of tariff oil wool and urging upon
congress the necessity of maintaining the
present rate of duty.
During a row among the Italians in a
saloon in the Platte bottoms in Denver on
Sunday, a well known character in police
circles called Dutch Kate" was severely
stabbed and other Italians we're badly cut
and beaten. Dutch Kate" received
twenty-five cuts.
Frank Novatny, a Union Pacific en-
ployc, with some money in his possession,
either fell or was pushed from the pilot of
an engine on the bridge between Omaha
and Council Bluffs, Sunday. He fell
sixty-fve feet and was killed. No valua.
bles were found on him and two men who
were in his company are missing.
The Markets-Stocks and Cattle.
New YORK, Dec. 19.-The stock
market to-day was exceedingly dull and
was barely steady during the forenoon,
and an attack by the bearish room traders
upoh Y iOoeihS oNOSho blOhO lbCll
prices and the general market sympathized
to a limited extent. Trading was confined
almost entirely to professionals. The
market was entirely devoid of features
until the afternoon, when a rumor was
started that Reading miners would strike
and an attack was made upon that stock,
which quickly broke one point. Later
the attention of the bears turned to
Richmond & West Point, which yielded a
like amount, and Manhattan broke 2 per
cent on sales of only 200 shares. Northern
Pacific preferred was notably weak, but
the remainder were without a feature, ex-
cept Oregon & Transcontinental, which
was quiet and firm in the carly trading,
on a rumor that the Oregon lease had
been signed, but most of its gain was af-
terward lost.
Governments dull but strong.
Mining shares dull. Money 5 per cent.
Copper-Market weak. Lake, $l7.65.
Petroleum opened at 79s, and after the
first half hour was depressed by inside
manipulation and declined to 1911. After
noon, however, it became strong and cx-
cited, and advanced rapidly on enormous
buying, and after gaining IL before 2
o'clock there was a slight hesitation, after
which the price advanced IL more and
closed strong at SI4. Sales, 1852, 900
barrels.
Following are closing prices of stocks:
Pacific 6's. ll9; American Express,
1854; Canada Pacific, co; Canada South
ern, 65f; Central Pacific, 343; Burlington,
1861; Delaware, Lackawanna, 1868; Dem
yer 4 Rio Grande, q; Erie, IS; Lake
Shore, 94i; Louisville & Nashville. COZ;
Michigan Central, sc; Kansas & Texas,
III; New York Central, 1851; Northern
Pacific, %; preferred, As; Northwest;
ern, 1861; Oregon Improvement, 453;
Navigation, So; Transcontinental, 20s;
Pacific Mail. 345; Panama, i; Rock
Island, Ill3; Milwaukee & st. Paul.
73i; Reading, 65b; Texas Pacific, 245;
Union Pacific, SIT; United States Ex-
press, &c; Fargo, 30; Western Union, III.
CHOAao, Dec. l0. Observation-Disclosures,
1000; market strong and l09l5c.
higher; fancy, $4,000 {. 90; shipping
steers, 81. 2095.0 90; stockers and feeders,
81: 1905. 45; Texas cattle, $l.65(93.00.
Sheep-ReceipJs 1900; market slow;
fancy, $5.0095. As; natives, 50. SO(94.S so;
Westerns, S3.0093. IS; Texans. $4,000
400.
Whcat-Market steady; Cash, &c;
January 76S; May SO lilo.